Federal prosecutors have unsealed a nine-count indictment charging Louis Trejo, Kenneth Garner, Harold Stevenson, and Erihk Belis in a sweeping alleged scheme that combines classic healthcare fraud allegations with racketeering, firearms, narcotics, money laundering, and violence-related counts. According to the Justice Department, the case centers on an alleged “War Room” enterprise that used fabricated transportation data to support at least…
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A California federal judge has approved the Justice Department’s settlement allowing Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks to move forward, rejecting objections from a coalition of state attorneys general and closing a closely watched chapter in federal merger enforcement.

The case, United States of America v. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. et al, drew unusual attention because…
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Veloxis Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay more than $46 million to resolve criminal and civil allegations that it used kickbacks to drive prescriptions and purchases of Envarsus XR, its kidney-transplant drug. According to the Department of Justice, the resolution includes a deferred prosecution agreement tied to a criminal information filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts,…
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The latest entry in D.C. Circuit appeal No. 25-7156 is procedural rather than merits-based, but it is still worth watching. On August 18, 2026, the clerk’s office entered an order scheduling oral argument for Tuesday, October 13, 2026. View full case on Docket Alarm.

Because this is a scheduling order, the court did not decide any substantive legal issue,…
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Apple has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00437 on August 17, 2026. At this stage, the publicly available docket information is limited, but the filing itself is noteworthy for patent litigators and in-house IP teams tracking how major technology companies are using PTAB proceedings as part of broader enforcement and…
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The legal fallout is still building from a federal judge’s decision to throw out a settlement in President Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, concluding the agreement had “no basis in law.” The ruling did more than unwind a headline-grabbing deal: it opened the door to sanctions, ethics referrals, and renewed scrutiny of how government lawyers and private counsel…
Continue Reading Judge’s Rebuke of Trump IRS Deal Keeps Rippling Through Federal Practice

A federal judge in California has sided with the federal government in a closely watched fight over the Santa Ynez pipeline system, rejecting the state’s attempt to block an order requiring Sable Offshore to keep the system operating under the Defense Production Act. The decision gives the Trump administration an early win in a dispute that sits at the intersection…
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The SEC’s new fraud case against former executives of subprime auto lender Tricolor stands out as one of the week’s most consequential enforcement developments, even though it was announced on August 18. At the center of the action is the agency’s allegation that senior insiders engaged in misconduct tied to Tricolor’s collapse, which reportedly erased roughly $1.9 billion in value…
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